I tried SOBI2 now for a couple of weeks to figure out what it can do for me. And I must say that I am astonished! After trying some other so called cck extensions I must say that there is no alternative to SOBI2 (not for me).

I started with the standard installation. Later I tried to build some kind of microblogging component. And in the meanwhile I am building a multilingual community webpage with a product catalog and reviews like the Joomla! extensions directory, a weblog and an address directory. All the mentioned applications are based on only one component besides Community Builder and Joomfish! - SOBI2.

A very big advantage is the possibility to build almost everything with only one component which will help you to save many hours of time that you would need to learn different interfaces and rules for a weblog component, a directory component and more.

The flexible template system allows you to integrate almost everything in your SOBI2 pages. In my case I display some informations from Community Builder on the entries - but, with some php and database knowlegde you can even build relational database applications that combine two or more clones of SOBI2 with other extensions' data if you like.

A big advantage is that you can get many many additions that will help you to form your site as you wish.

Last, but not least I must confess, that I would not be able to use it like I do without the great community of SOBI2 users. There seems to be no unanswered question in their forum and it contains so many great ideas... :)

This extension just saved the life of my news workflow :D This way I am still able to use the excellent image captions plugin for JCE even though its output would destroy my frontpage layout, while it is wanted in the article view.

http://www.joomlacontenteditor.net/forum/topic?f=30&t=15047&p=24510#p24508

ReReplacer is for me a perfect design tool that was still missing in my collection.